Boston Children's Museum Show

For those who might like to wander through, I will be exhibiting "AS Found" at "The Yellow Show" present by and at "The Boston Children's Museum" and set up by curator Jennifer Jenson... Starting April 22nd until June 20th... This painting is almost 4 feet wide and over 6 feet tall... It is painted on a board I found at the recycling center here in Camden. I found the board sitting on top of the recycle pile in perfectly and beautifully worn condition as though someone had used it for a work table top or to cover and old doorway... It had edges worn over in and erratically feathered almost like a piece of hand made paper stationary. I imediately removed it from the pile and brought it back and started preparing it for painting. It went through many concepts and stages along its way to evolving into this final image... The whole process took over a year but in the end I finally got what I wanted, which was a piece of work that bonded with the character of the board it was painted on... I am always impressed with autumn and just how vivid the colors are and how beautifully overwhelming they can be... which in the case of this painting is represented by the many shades of yellow best complimented in nature by the birch tree... I am looking forward to the show and meeting the kids who come to the opening... In most cases at show all of us adults attend to the respectable reality that you don't touch art work... However, in this case and with kids in general, I always expect and even encourage them to walk up, look and even touch the painting, so they can get all their senses involved... I always think somehow that it's more important to inspire a child's curiosity as long as they are being respectful than it is to... over cherish and protect an object!